The Long Run Impacts of Merit Aid : Evidence from California's Cal Grant. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-13 / Eric Bettinger, Oded Gurantz and Laura Kawano.

We examine the impacts of being awarded a Cal Grant, among the most generous state merit aid programs. We exploit variation in eligibility rules using GPA and family income cutoffs that are ex ante unknown to applicants. Cal Grant eligibility increases degree completion by 2 to 5 percentage points i...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Bettinger, Eric, Gurantz, Oded (Author), Kawano, Laura (Author), Sacerdote, Bruce (Author)
Corporate Author:	Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2016.
Subjects:	Merit Scholarships. Grants. State Aid. Eligibility. Grade Point Average. Family Income. Student Financial Aid. College Students. Regression (Statistics) Outcomes of Education. Educational Attainment. College Choice. Income. Social Mobility. Cost Effectiveness.